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NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C.
Verse Revelation 12:4. _AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS
OF HEAVEN_] It is not unusual in Scripture, as Dr. Mitchell observes,
to call the hindmost of a...
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AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN - The word
rendered “drew” - συρω surō - means to “draw, drag,
haul.” Prof. Stuart renders it “drew along”; and explains it as
meaning that “th...
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REVELATION 12. THE VISION OF THE WOMAN, THE CHILD, AND THE DRAGON.
This chapter has always presented difficulties to the student of
Revelation. Two questions present themselves: (_a)_ What is the
conn...
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"And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold. great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,...
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THE WOMAN AND THE BEAST (Revelation 12:1-17)
It is necessary to read this chapter as a whole before we examine it
in detail. A great sign appeared in the sky--a woman clothed with the
sun, and with t...
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AND HIS, &C. Refers to Satan's first rebellion and to those who
followed him.
DREW. draggeth. See John 21:8.
DID. Read "he".
EARTH. App-129.
STOOD. is standing. Perf. tense, indicating abiding act...
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_And his tail drew_ The great serpent crawls along the vault of the
sky, and the wrigglings of his tail remove the stars from their
places. "_Drew_" is literally DRAWETH.
_stood_ Perhaps more accurat...
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Revelation 12:1-6. THE WOMAN WITH THE MAN-CHILD
This Vision is clearly not to be closely connected with that of the
Witnesses: not only is it separated by the arrangement of the
prophecies Revelation...
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Revelation 11:15-19; Revelation 12:7-12. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET...
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ΚΑῚ Ἡ ΟΥ̓ΡᾺ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΎΡΕΙ. Is σύρει part
of the description of the dragon, while ἔβαλεν marks an event?
If so, we should understand that the great serpent coils himself over
a third of the sky, and se...
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_THE CHILD AND THE DRAGON REVELATION 12:4-6:_ The great red dragon was
so cunning that at his fall he took with him a third of the angels of
heaven. He even did his best to destroy the child that was...
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ΟΎΡΆ (G3769) хвост,
ΣΎΡΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΎΡΩ (G4951) тащить,
мести,
ΈΒΑΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать,
ΈΣΤΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΪΣΤΗΜΙ (G4739)
стоять.
ΜΕΛΛΟΎΣΗΣ _praes. a...
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Strauss-' Comments
SECTION 35
Text Revelation 12:1-6
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; 2
and s...
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_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_
PART III
THE TWO SIGNS IN HEAVEN
CHAPTER XII
_Text (Revelation 11:19; Revelation 12:1-17)_
19 And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there
was seen in h...
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And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast
them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it w...
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Temple Section-The Male Son the same historical events from two sides,
Kings from the human, Chronicles from the divine, so this section
reviews the period which has already been presented in its r...
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THE WOMAN AND THE MAN-CHILD. THE DRAGON
The persecution which the Church had already suffered, and which was
about to burst forth again, is the great fact which underlies the
whole 'Revelation.' The s...
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TAIL, etc.] i.e. he was huge and mighty: cp. Daniel 8:10....
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FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME
REVELATION
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 12
WAR IN HEAVEN AND ON THE EARTH - REVELATION 12:1-14
THE WOMAN AND THE *DRAGON - REVELATION 12:1-6...
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AND HIS TAIL... — Translate, _And his tail drags_ (or_, sweeps) away
the third part of the stars of the heaven, and casts them to the
earth._ The stars are the light- bearers, the illustrious of earth...
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CHAPTER IX.
THE FIRST GREAT ENEMY OF THE CHURCH.
Revelation 12:1.
THE twelfth chapter of the Revelation of St John has been felt by
every commentator to be one more than usually difficult to interpr...
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The symbolism is a reminiscence of an ætiological myth in astrology
(_cf._ the _cauda_ of the constellation Scorpio) and of the primitive
view which regarded the dark cloud as a snake enfolding the lu...
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“HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER”
Revelation 11:14; Revelation 12:1
The kingdom is even now Christ's, but it is hidden, even as He is. One
day it will be manifested. For a long time David was the an...
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In this and two subsequent Chapter s we have an interpolation in the
account of the actual procedure. Two signs are described, a woman and
a dragon, between whom is antagonism. Symbolically, it covers...
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Verse 9 tells us the dragon is Satan. The seven heads could represent
wisdom, vitality or, as in the case of the woman in scarlet,
mountains. (Revelation 17:9) The ten horns could be power of kings.
...
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(7) And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did
cast them to the earth: and the dragon (8) stood before the woman
which was ready to be delivered, for (9) to devour her child as s...
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His tail drew the third part of the stars: a great part of mankind.
This is spoken with an allusion to the fall of Lucifer from heaven,
with the rebellious angels, driven from thence by St. Michael.
...
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(1) And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with
the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars: (2) And she being with child cried, travailing in...
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We begin now what may be called the second volume of the Revelation.
The prophetic part of the book divides into two portions at this
point. This is another land-mark that cannot be despised, if we wo...
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Revelation 11:19; Revelation 12:1-17
War
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance
planning. --Richard M. Nixon
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants,...
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Chapter 12 gives us a brief but all-important summary of the whole
course of events, viewed, not in their instruments on earth or the
judgment of these, but the divine view of all the principles at wo...
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AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND DID CAST
THEM TO THE EARTH,.... So Solinus e speaks of dragons that have power
not only in their teeth, but in their tails, and do more hur...
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And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast
them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it wa...
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_And there appeared a woman clothed with the sun_ “It was a
well-known custom,” says Lowman, “at the time of this prophecy, to
represent the several virtues, and public societies, by the figure of
a w...
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DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN; probably representing the
subjection of the kings and rulers of a large part of the world to the
Roman power. The enmity between the seed of the woman and t...
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THE BATTLE OF MICHAEL WITH THE DRAGON.
The woman clothed with the sun:...
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AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN AND DID CAST
THEM TO THE EARTH; AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHICH WAS
READY TO BE DELIVERED FOR TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS...
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A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN: ISRAEL
A great sign now appears in heaven. We thus are looking at things from
heaven's viewpoint, and the vision goes back in time to connect the
past with the future so...
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_ 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the
earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give
birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born._
A. The gr...
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1-6 The church, under the emblem of a woman, the mother of believers,
was seen by the apostle in vision, in heaven. She was clothed with the
sun, justified, sanctified, and shining by union with Chri...
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The TAIL of the RED DRAGON signifies his followers, his civil and
military officers, whosoever were by him employed to execute his
commands. By THE STARS, here, are either meant the ministers of the
C...
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Revelation 12:4 G2532 His G846 tail G3769 drew G4951 (G5719) third
G5154 stars G792 heaven G3772 and...
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‘And his tail draws the third part of the stars of heaven and cast
them to the earth.'
In Daniel 8:10 it was said of Antiochus Epiphanes, a ruler of Syria in
2nd century BC, that ‘some of the host of...
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The third Woe, or the seventh Trumpet, came to an end with chap. 11;
and, as the seven Trumpets followed immediately after the seven Seals,
we might now have expected that these, in their turn, would...
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Revelation 12:4. HIS TAIL DRAWETH THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF
HEAVEN, AND DID CAST THEM TO THE EARTH. The second particular thus
mentioned of the dragon has relation to what he does, and is in
cont...
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HIS TAIL
(η ουρα αυτου). See Revelation 9:10; Revelation 9:19.DRAWETH
(συρε). Present active indicative of συρω, old verb, to drag,
here alone in the Apocalypse, but see John 21:8.The third part o...
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Revelation 12:1. _And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars:_
This is that woman of whom the pr...
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CONTENTS: The woman clothed with the sun (Israel). Satan drawing the
stars. The man-child (Christ) caught up to the throne. The arch-angel
and his angels fighting Satan. Satan and Israel in the great...
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Revelation 12:1. _There appeared a great wonder in heaven;_ that is,
in the church or kingdom of heaven below; for the church has long been
called a woman, and a fruitful mother, the bride, and the La...
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WITH HIS TALL. Symbolic of the great power this dragon has! [See
Ephesians 2:1-3; Ephesians 6:10-13.] IN ORDER TO EAT HER CHILD.
_Matthew 2_ helps us understand this. Satan, acting through Herod, has...
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_A great red dragon._
THE GREAT WAR
A contest here is waging which enlists and engages the mightiest
powers that exist. It is the great and far-reaching conflict between
good and evil, between truth...
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REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:4 HIS TAIL SWEPT DOWN A THIRD OF
THE STARS OF HEAVEN. Evil spirits (demons) who are Satan’s allies
share his defeat by God’s forces (vv....
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REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:1 Two signs appear in heaven—a
WOMAN who gives BIRTH, and a DRAGON intent on destroying her
offspring. Twice John sees the dragon defeated. B
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Vs. 3, 4 And there appeared a great red dragon, having seven heads and
ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. His tail drew the third part
of the stars, and did cast them to the earth, and the drag...
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THE MISSION OF CHRIST’S CHURCH AND ITS GREAT HINDERER
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
“IN the set of visions now before us, the Apocalypse unveils the
spiritual aspects of the conflict, that we may k...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter commences another series of revelations. Again St. John
returns to the beginning, and traces the spiritual history of the
Church and the Christian in their warfare with Satan....
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_4 AND HIS TAIL DREW THE THIRD PART OF THE STARS OF HEAVEN, AND DID
CAST THEM TO THE EARTH: AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHICH
WAS READY TO BE DELIVERED, FOR TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON AS I...
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And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the
sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head [the sun and the
moon under her feet, and on her head] a crown of twelve stars...
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1 Peter 5:8; Daniel 8:9; Exodus 1:16; John 8:44; Matthew 2:3;...
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THE WAR IN HEAVEN
Revelation 12:1 _and Revelation 13:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It almost seems folly to try to speak on two Chapter s in Revelation,
at one time. We realize we cannot do either one justi...
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And his tail — His falsehood and subtilty. Draweth — As a train.
The third part — A very large number. Of the stars of heaven — The
Christians and their teachers, who before sat in heavenly places wit...
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That is, "Herod watched to destroy Christ as soon as he was born,
Matthew 2:1-12 so while the church was endeavouring to propagate
Christianity and make converts to Christ, the dragon watched,
intendi...